I hope this isn't a double post, my 1st msg was bounced for having some sort in inline html. Anyway, I'm having the same issue. I upgraded and now X doesn't start, and has the same error. I tried reinstalling fonts, adding additional fonts, etc. Even renaming my cygwin and download dirs and creating a fresh (unless there were registry hooks from beyond the grave) install, same issue. I read the upgrade info, but to my limited understanding the known issue were around custom startup scripts, while I just use the vanilla stuff that's provied. If I start the server from the start menu icon, the server loads, but no x apps load. If, for example, from bash I try and start xterm, I get a msg about display not set, which I fix, and then:
$ xterm Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font Error: Aborting: no font found ------------------------------------- Here's the error when I use startx instead: (and log file at the bottom). $ startx xauth: creating new authority file /home/mstave/.serverauth.9888 /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 47: twm: command not found /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 48: xclock: command not found Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 fontWarning: Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font Error: Aborting: no font foundError: Aborting: no font found Aborting: no font found waiting for X server to shut down ......... --------------------------------------------- Here's what I have installed - my apologies if there's more here than's needed. Cygwin Package Information Package Version _update-info-dir 00796-1 alternatives 1.3.30c-2 ash 20040127-4 autossh 1.4b-1 base-files 3.7-1 base-passwd 2.2-1 bash 3.2.48-21 bash-completion 20060301-2 bzip2 1.0.5-2 coreutils 6.10-2 crypt 1.1-1 csih 0.1.8-1 cygrunsrv 1.34-1 cygutils 1.3.2-1 cygwin 1.5.25-15 cygwin-doc 1.4-4 diffutils 2.8.7-1 e2fsprogs 1.35-3 editrights 1.01-2 expat 2.0.1-1 findutils 4.4.0-3 font-adobe-dpi100 1.0.0-1 font-alias 1.0.1-1 font-bh-dpi100 1.0.0-1 font-encodings 1.0.2-1 fontconfig 2.6.0-1 gawk 3.1.6-1 grep 2.5.3-1 groff 1.19.2-2 gzip 1.3.12-2 inetutils 1.5-4 less 382-1 libbz2_1 1.0.5-2 libdb4.5 4.5.20.2-2 libexpat1 2.0.1-1 libexpat1-devel 2.0.1-1 libfontconfig1 2.6.0-1 libfontenc1 1.0.4-2 libfreetype26 2.3.8-1 libfreetype6 2.3.8-1 libgdbm4 1.8.3-8 libGL1 7.2-2 libICE6 1.0.4-2 libiconv2 1.12-1 libintl2 0.12.1-3 libintl3 0.14.5-1 libintl8 0.17-3 libncurses8 5.5-3 libpcre0 7.8-1 libpixman1_0 0.12.0-1 libpopt0 1.6.4-4 libreadline6 5.2.13-11 libSM6 1.1.0-1 libwrap0 7.6-4 libX11_6 1.1.5-2 libXau6 1.0.4-1 libXaw7 1.0.5-1 libxcb-xlib0 1.1-2 libxcb1 1.1-2 libXdmcp6 1.0.2-3 libXext6 1.0.4-1 libXft2 2.1.13-1 libxkbfile1 1.0.5-2 libXmu6 1.0.4-1 libXmuu1 1.0.4-1 libXpm4 3.5.7-2 libXrender1 0.9.4-2 libXt6 1.0.5-2 login 1.9-8 luit 1.0.3-1 man 1.6e-1 minires 1.02-1 mkfontdir 1.0.4-1 mkfontscale 1.0.5-1 ncftp 3.2.1-1 openssh 5.1p1-10 openssl 0.9.8j-1 perl 5.10.0-5 ping 1.0-1 rebase 2.4.4-1 rgb 1.0.3-1 rsync 3.0.4-1 run 1.1.10-1 sed 4.1.5-2 tar 1.21-1 termcap 20050421-1 terminfo 5.5_20061104-1 texinfo 4.8a-1 tzcode 2008h-1 util-linux 2.14.1-1 which 2.20-1 X-start-menu-icons 1.0.4-1 xauth 1.0.3-1 xcursor-themes 1.0.1-1 xinit 1.1.1-1 xkbcomp 1.0.5-1 xkeyboard-config 1.4-1 xman 1.0.3-3 xmodmap 1.0.3-1 xorg-server 1.5.3-5 xrdb 1.0.5-1 xterm 238-1 zlib 1.2.3-2 zsync 0.5-1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- XWin.0.log: Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 1.5.3.0 (20090121) Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com XWin was started with the following command line: /usr/bin/X :0 -auth /home/mstave/.serverauth.9888 ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1400 h 1050 winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning (II) XF86Config is not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information winPrefsLoadPreferences: /etc/X11/system.XWinrc LoadPreferences: Done parsing the configuration file... MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0 (--) 5 mouse buttons found (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409) (--) Using preset keyboard for "English (USA)" (409), type "4" Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/TTF/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/OTF, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/Type1/, removing from list! winProcEstablishConnection - Hello winProcEstablishConnection - Clipboard is not enabled, returning. (II) XF86Config is not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information winPrefsLoadPreferences: /etc/X11/system.XWinrc LoadPreferences: Done parsing the configuration file... MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0 (--) 5 mouse buttons found (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409) (--) Using preset keyboard for "English (USA)" (409), type "4" Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/TTF/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/OTF, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/Type1/, removing from list! Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/